Another Quote by Edmund White

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the…

— Edmund White

It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.

— Jane Lynch

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

— Edmund White

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in…

— Edmund White

Early on, I got some criticism from other gay writers and queer theorists for being too 'assimilationist,' probably because my characters are outsiders, even…

— Stephen McCauley

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

— Andrew Sullivan

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay…

— Bob Mould

Loads of my friends are gay, I don't see myself in any sense as being opposed to gay rights, but I did express a…

— Lucinda Creighton

o the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not…

— Manny Pacquiao

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who…

— Miriam Margolyes

Here was long period on my life when I was very disappointed by the fact I wasn't gay. Because I grew up going to…

— Moby

I think as queer people, we were very used to accommodating.

— Bowen Yang